Why was Italy looked at as a "junior" partner in the Triple Alliance? What did Italy bring to the partnership?
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Italy was a relatively late unified nation, as was Germany, but had significantly less industrialization and a less developed economy than Germany, which benefitted from early industrialization and a wealth of mineral resources. Beginning under Bismarck, Germany had poured those resources into military development and technology. By contrast, Italy had not unified through military means, had less substantially developed military, and had a more difficult time with promoting a nationalist perspective in the widely varying regions of Italian states. Additionally, Italy had very little colonial success, having been defeated in its attempt to take Ethiopia as a colony in Africa. There were significant differences in the South, being poorer and more agrarian than in the North, which was more urban and industrial. However, Italy's geography and presence on the Mediterranean was a benefit to landlocked Austro-Hungary, and provided more direct African access (as well as to coastal France) for Germany. Thus, the Triple Alliance was created in 1882.
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